Jim Sturgess
1) Upside Down
Author
Language
English
Description
Adam and Eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. Ten years after a forced separation, Adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love.
Author
Language
English
Description
Across The Universe, an original musical film, is a love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s, amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock 'n roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, the killing fields of Vietnam...
3) The Other Me
Author
Language
English
Description
Architect is diagnosed with a rare eye disease, entering him into a surreal reality in which he sees people's true motives
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fledgling barn owl Soren lives in the forest of Tyto with his father Noctus, mother Marella, older brother Kludd, younger sister Eglantine, and their snake nest maid Ms. P. Noctus enjoys telling Soren and Eglantine stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a mythical group of warrior owls, who once saved all owlkind from the evil "Pure Ones." One night Kludd pushes Soren and they both fall to the ground. They are kidnapped taken to the home to the Pure...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A revolutionary rock musical that re-imagines America in the turbulent late 1960s. When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation.
9) One day
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After one day together, July 15th, 1988, their college graduation, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew begin a friendship that lasts a lifetime. She's a working-class girl who dreams of making the world a better place. He's a wealthy charmer who thinks the world is his playground. Somewhere over the next two decades, these two very different people realize that the love they've been hoping for has been there for them all along.
10) The Way Back
Author
Language
English
Description
Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (Apollo 13), Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) and Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement) and Colin Farrell (In Bruges) star in this epic saga of survival from six-time Oscar-nominee Peter Weir (Witness, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World). Inspired by an incredible true story, THE WAY BACK begins in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Young owl Soren marvels at his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, mythic winged warriors who fought a great battle to save all owl kind from the evil Pure Ones. When he and brother Kludd fall from their treetop home and into the talons of the Pure Ones, it's up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave owls. Also contains the 3D feature film.
12) Upside down
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man ... battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams ... [posing] the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?"--Container sleeve.
13) The way back
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs to...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her 'daughters are being traded like cattle for...
16) Upside Down
Publisher
Distributed by Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?
17) 21
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T., who wants to attend the Harvard School of Medicine, but can't afford the $300,000 for tuition. Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor Micky Rosa. The club has four other students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy, who are being trained by Micky in the skill of blackjack card counting. Although initially reluctant, Ben joins the club and travels with his new...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jude is a young dockworker from Liverpool who travels to find his estranged father in America. He is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Lucy is a rich and sheltered American girl who Jude falls in love with. Lucy joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic...
19) Cloud atlas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When young doctor Edward Newgate arrives at Stonehearst Asylum in search of an apprenticeship, he is warmly welcomed by Superintendent Dr. Lamb and a mesmerizing woman by the name of Eliza Grave. Edward is intrigued by Lamb's modern methods of treating the insane until a series of unusual events leads him to make a horrifying discovery, exposing Lamb's utopia and pushing Edward to the limits of his conscience.